Report of the Board of Metropolitan Park Commissioners, Volume 24Wright & Potter printing Company, state printers, 1917 - Landscape architecture |
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Page 119 - ... contained in Senate Document No. 247 and House Documents Nos. 1175 and 1316 of the present year be hereby referred to the public service commission, which shall make a study of the existing statutes relative to the repair and maintenance of public ways and places in which street railways are located, and report to the next general court on or before the second Wednesday in January its conclusions with reference to the need of any changes in said statutes, with drafts of bills embodying any recommendations...
Page 8 - Said commissioners shall consider the advisability of laying out ample open spaces for the use of the public, in the towns and cities in the vicinity of Boston...
Page 130 - That the metropolitan park commission be investigation authorized and directed to investigate the necessity, or desirability and the practicability of establishing camping grounds in the public parks of the metropolitan district. The commission shall report to the next general court not later than the second Wednesday in January, with such...
Page 134 - That the metropolitan park commission is hereby authorized and directed to investigate and determine the most feasible and desirable route for the extension of the present road in the Charles river reservation from Brooks street in the Brighton district...
Page 122 - ... Board of Railroad Commissioners and the Board of Harbor and Land Commissioners, who are for this purpose constituted a joint Board to act by a majority vote of all the members thereof, are directed to consider the matter of the completion of the New Bedford and Fairhaven bridge over the Acushnet River, and to report to the next General Court, on or before the fifteenth day of January...
Page 122 - TO INVESTIGATE THE DESIRABILITY OF PROVIDING SHELTER AND SHOWER BATH FACILITIES AT THE SPEEDWAY PLAYGROUND IN THE CHARLES RIVER RESERVATION. Resolved, That the metropolitan park commission be...
Page 8 - authority to make maps and plans of such spaces, and to collect such other information in relation thereto as the said board may deem expedient ;" and to "make a report in writing of a comprehensive plan for laying out, acquiring and maintaining such open spaces.
Page 119 - ... clerical assistance, and for other purposes, as the governor and council may from time to time approve: provided, that the total expense for compensation and other expenses shall not exceed the sum of one thousand dollars. Approved May 9, 1916. RESOLVE PROVIDING FOR AN INVESTIGATION RELATIVE TO Q'^n 82 THE ADVISABILITY OF TAKING CERTAIN LAND IN EVERETT FOR PARK PURPOSES.
Page 125 - Said commission shall report the results of its investigation, together with such recommendations as it may deem advisable, to the next general court on or before the second Wednesday in January. [Approved May 28, 1915.
Page 130 - That the metropolitan park commission be authorized and directed to investigate the feasibility, desirability and cost of construction and maintenance of a shelter, and of shower bath facilities, at the Speedway playground in the Charles river reservation, and to report to the next general court on or before the tenth day of January. [Approved May 2, 1916. [CHAP. 79...